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They did it again. Even as it raised transit fares and slashed bus service, Montreal’s transit authority hiked salaries of its top executives in January, with three of them enjoying 4.5-per-cent boosts, The Gazette has learned. Some lower-level managers were rewarded with hikes of up to 5.5 per cent.

After a dismal April and May, Bixi ridership improved with the weather in June, though the number of trips was still lower than last year. A few days after saying it would not reveal updated usage data until the fall, Bixi provided figures for June 2013 and 2014 to The Gazette.

Don’t forget east-end Montreal. Proponents of a métro Blue Line extension to Anjou are worried their project — discussed for more than 30 years — could be sidelined for light rail transit between the South Shore and downtown on the new Champlain Bridge.

On Monday morning, activists pushing for more West Island trains said Transport Minister Robert Poëti told them Quebec would pump $80 million into the Vaudreuil-Hudson line to add four to six more departures per day within two years.

The Société de transport de Montréal launched the new rush-hour Sherbrooke St. bus/taxi lane on June 2 with a press release. Missing from the communiqué was the fact that 105-Sherbrooke service has seen significant cuts since last year.

Seven weeks of traffic-inducing roadwork begins Friday night on the Mercier Bridge. Here’s what to expect on the bridge and at other trouble spots in the days to come, as well as the lowdown on transit services on Tuesday’s Fête nationale holiday.

Quebec will spend $1.4 billion fixing provincial roadways in Montreal over the next two years. That’s almost 30 per cent of the $4.9 billion to be spent across the province, Quebec Transport Minister Robert Poëti announced Monday.

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